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abstract：:The viability of probiotics is affected by several factors during manufacturing, storage and gastrointestinal tract passage. Protecting the probiotics from harmful conditions is particularly critical for oxygen sensitive species like Akkermansia muciniphila, a bacterium which recently has been proposed as a next-gener...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Marcial-Coba MS,Saaby L,Knøchel S,Nielsen DS

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapidly growing industrial complex including oil refineries and chemical industries has developed around the coastal area of Haldia port in the district of Midnapore, West Bengal, India. The coastal water is highly polluted with industrial wastes along with petroleum hydrocarbons. The bacteria isolated from the diff...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Bhattacharya M,Roy SS,Biswas D,Kumar R

更新日期：2000-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumanii, which may be found in water, is an important emerging hospital-acquired pathogen. Free-living amoebae can be recovered from the same water networks, and it has been shown that these protozoa may support the growth of other bacteria. In this paper, we have studied potential relationships between...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cateau E,Verdon J,Fernandez B,Hechard Y,Rodier MH

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three clinical isolates of Salmonella enterica recovered between 2000 and 2003 in France and Senegal were found to produce extended-spectrum beta-lactamase CTX-M-15. The two isolates from Senegal were recovered from stool of a hospitalized patient with gastroenteritis in 2000 and from an urine specimen of an out-patie...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Weill FX,Perrier-Gros-Claude JD,Demartin M,Coignard S,Grimont PA

更新日期：2004-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzymic interconversion of Escherichia coli isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICDH) between the catalytically active and inactive forms is mediated through the activities of ICDH-kinase/phosphatase in response to changes in the metabolic environment. In this study, the use of mutant strains devoid of isocitrate lyase (ace...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： el-Mansi EM

更新日期：1998-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An exo-polygalacturonase (EC 3.2.1.15) was purified to apparent homogeneity from cultures of Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici on synthetic medium supplemented with citrus pectin, using preparative isoelectric focusing. The enzyme, denominated PG2, had an apparent M(r) of 74000 Da upon SDS-PAGE. The pI of the main ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Di Pietro A,Roncero MI

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of some enzymes belonging to the Leloir pathway, phosphoglucomutase, UDP-glucose pyrophosphorylase, UDP-galactose 4-epimerase and galactose 1-P uridyl transferase, were studied in a wild ropy, a non-ropy and an overproducing mutant ropy strain of Streptococcus thermophilus. These activities were assayed...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Escalante A,Villegas J,Wacher C,García-Garibay M,Farrés A

更新日期：2002-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1.5-kb XbaI-SacII fragment containing the upstream region of the Trichoderma reesei cellobiohydrolase I gene (cbh1) has been sequenced. The 1.5-kb fragment contains eight 6-bp sites having an identical or similar sequence to the consensus sequence for binding a catabolite repressor, Aspergillus nidulans CreA. Result...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Takashima S,Iikura H,Nakamura A,Masaki H,Uozumi T

更新日期：1996-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of the 2 kb nucleotide sequence including the 5'-flanking region of a cell-adhesion protein-encoding gene (mfbA) isolated from the basidiomycete Lentinus edodes revealed that the promoter region contains a TATA box, a GC box, a CAAT box, a CT-rich sequence element, a TATA box, two CT-rich sequences, and a ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Kondoh O,Shishido K

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The denitrifying bacterium Thauera aromatica strain AR-1 grows anaerobically with protocatechuate (3,4-dihydroxybenzoate (DHB)) as sole energy and carbon source. This bacterium harbors two distinct pathways for degradation of aromatic compounds, the benzoyl-coenzyme A (CoA) pathway for benzoate degradation and the hyd...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Philipp B,Kemmler D,Hellstern J,Gorny N,Caballero A,Schink B

更新日期：2002-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently identified the phaG(Pp) gene encoding (R)-3-hydroxydecanoyl-ACP:CoA transacylase in Pseudomonas putida, which directly links the fatty acid de novo biosynthesis and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biosynthesis. An open reading frame (ORF) of which the deduced amino acid sequence shared about 57% identity with P...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hoffmann N,Steinbüchel A,Rehm BH

更新日期：2000-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:E7 oncoprotein of human papillomavirus-16 (HPV-16) is constitutively produced in cervical cancer (CxCa) and is a good candidate for the design of therapeutic vaccines. In this work, the nisin-controlled expression system was used to display the E7 protein at the cell surface of the food-grade Gram-positive bacterium L...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Cortes-Perez NG,Bermúdez-Humarán LG,Le Loir Y,Rodriguez-Padilla C,Gruss A,Saucedo-Cárdenas O,Langella P,Montes-de-Oca-Luna R

更新日期：2003-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:IS1(SB) and its two variants were identified as the major and minor IS1 elements in Shigella boydii. The nucleotide sequences of IS1(SB), IS1(O157:H7) from Escherichia coli O157:H7 and IS1F from E. coli K12 suggest that these IS1 elements had been horizontally transferred among S. boydii and E. coli O157:H7 and K12. T...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hsu WB,Chen JH

更新日期：2003-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Piscirickettsia salmonis is the etiological agent of Salmonid Rickettsial Septicemia, a disease affecting salmon aquaculture industry. We analyzed the 16S-23S rDNA spacer region (internal transcribed spacer, ITS) of Chilean P. salmonis isolates LF-89 and EM-90. Two main ITS amplification products were obtained by PCR ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Casanova A,Obreque J,Sandino AM,Jashés M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned and sequenced the rfaH gene from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi strain Ty2. The gene showed a high degree of similarity to the rfaH genes from Escherichia coli K-12 and S. enterica serovar Typhimurium. A rfaH mutant was constructed by site-directed mutagenesis. This mutant produced a rough lipopolysa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rojas G,Saldías S,Bittner M,Zaldívar M,Contreras I

更新日期：2001-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the modular structure of the Rhizobium meliloti dicarboxylic acid sensor protein, DctB, three truncated DctB proteins (DctB4, DctB5 and DctB4G) were constructed, overproduced in Escherichia coli and purified. The DctB4G protein was composed of 446 amino acids of the DctB C-terminus and displayed strong ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Giblin L,Archdeacon J,O'Gara F

更新日期：1996-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrophobin proteins originate from filamentous fungi, which are able to self-assemble at water-air interfaces. Hydrophobins have multiple functions in fungal growth and development. In this study, the function of the Trhfb3 gene encoding a class II hydrophobin was characterized in Trichoderma reesei. The null mutant ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： He R,Li C,Feng J,Zhang D

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes encoding functions necessary for inhibition by the Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae cyclic lipodepsipeptide, syringomycin-E, were identified by mutant analyses. Syringomycin-E-resistant mutants were isolated, shown to contain single recessive mutations, and divided into eight gene compl...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Takemoto JY,Yu Y,Stock SD,Miyakawa T

更新日期：1993-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Eikenella corrodens 33EK(L), a clinical isolate, was assayed for its ability to utilise amino acids as substrates in the reduction of nitrate to nitrite. The metabolism of proline, glutamate, serine and glutamine was found to result in relatively high rates of nitrate reduction. The ability of cells to metabolise thes...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Gully NJ,Rogers AH

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 181 251 bp accessory plasmid pSmeSM11b of Sinorhizobium meliloti strain SM11, belonging to a dominant indigenous S. meliloti subpopulation identified during a long-term field release experiment, was sequenced. This plasmid has 166 coding sequences (CDSs), 42% of which encode proteins with homology to proteins of k...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Stiens M,Schneiker S,Pühler A,Schlüter A

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The xylanase gene of Streptomyces flavogriseus was cloned in pUC8 plasmid and expressed in Escherichia coli lysogenic for lambda cI857. lambda-Induced lysis of E. coli at 42 degrees C allowed efficient release of cloned enzyme activity in extracellular environment. The xylanase gene was located in the 0.8-kb HindIII f...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Srivastava R,Ali SS,Srivastava BS

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this analysis of membrane lipid compositions in Helicobacter pylori, the membrane lipid profiles drastically changed during coccoid formation: cholesteryl-6-O-tetradecanoyl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside levels increased, cholesteryl-alpha-D-glucopyranoside and phosphatidyl ethanolamine decreased, and a coordinated increa...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Shimomura H,Hayashi S,Yokota K,Oguma K,Hirai Y

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus subtilis, utilisation of xylose, arabinose and ribose is controlled by the transcriptional factors XylR, AraR and RbsR, respectively. Here we apply the comparative approach to the analysis of these regulons in the Bacillus/Clostridium group. Evolutionary variability of operon structures is demonstrated and...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Rodionov DA,Mironov AA,Gelfand MS

更新日期：2001-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Tritrichomonas foetus is a venereal pathogen of cattle, which causes infertility, early embryonic death or abortion. In order to evaluate the potential trichomonicidal activity of benzimidazoles, the effects of thiabendazole, mebendazole and albendazole were analyzed on the multiplication, general morphology and ultra...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Carvalho KP,Gadelha AP

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epidemic community-associated methicillin-resistant clone Staphylococcus aureus USA300 is a major source of skin and soft tissue infections and involves strains with a diverse set of resistance genes. In this study, we report efficient transduction of penicillinase and tetracycline resistance plasmids by bacteriop...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Varga M,Kuntová L,Pantůček R,Mašlaňová I,Růžičková V,Doškař J

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FNR is an iron-binding transcriptional regulator of Escherichia coli which controls the expression of target genes in response to anaerobiosis. The mechanism used by FNR to sense and respond to anaerobiosis is unknown but it is thought to involve iron. In vitro transcription analyses have shown that iron-deficient FNR...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Green J,Guest JR

更新日期：1993-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic position of an acidophilic chemo-organotrophic menaquinone-containing bacterium, Acidobacterium capsulatum, was studied on the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence information. A. capsulatum showed the highest level of sequence similarity to Heliobacterium chlorum, a member of the Gram-positive group, yet ...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Hiraishi A,Kishimoto N,Kosako Y,Wakao N,Tano T

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of the filamentous gliding bacterium Vitreoscilla, LB13 and C1, are shown to be highly sensitive to UV-A (320-400 nm), with an LD50 of less than 20 kJ m(-2). Vitreoscilla LB13 can be protected from UV-A by including superoxide dismutase and catalase, separately or in combination, during the exposure, indicatin...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Biggs LF,Moody AJ

更新日期：2003-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The multiallelic mating type locus B alpha 1 of Schizophyllum commune encodes a pheromone receptor and putative pheromone genes. A comparison of two alleles encoding receptors that share the same specificity B alpha 1 was performed using strains of different geographic origin. The amino acid sequence alignment reveale...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Wendland J,Kothe E

更新日期：1996-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The miniplasmid profiles of 18 Bacillus thuringiensis strains belonging to 8 different serotypes were determined using an alkaline hydrolysis method for isolation of low molecular mass plasmids. Nearly all the strains contained covalently closed circular (CCC) DNA species ranging from 2 to 5 species per strain and fro...

journal_title：FEMS microbiology letters

authors： Marin R,Tanguay RM,Valéro J,Letarte R,Bellemare G

更新日期：1992-07-15 00:00:00